Solvent
Subject To Shift
Ghostly International (2010)
Why you'll love it: Classy and peppy bleeps and bloops
Why you'll hate it: Distracting vocals and tame lyrics
It's always handy when an album cover efficiently tells the listener what they are about to listen to. Take a good look at Subject To Shift's cover, and you'll likely be able to guess what you're in store for. Spoiler: This is an artsy abstract electronic album.
I only have one other Solvent album, Apples & Synthesizers (2004), which is roughly the same thing. The only difference is this one has a bit too much vocals (obviously masked behind vocoding). Solvent's music works better the more mysterious it is, lyrics give them an unwelcome normalizing familiarity. Aside from that, if you dig Kraftwerk robotic synth music, you'll dig this too. The songs don't drone in ambience, but never veer into dance music territory either. It's that synthetic tone that you'd expect to hear in a campy 70's/80's vision of the future, or a PBS educational program about technology.
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